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O’Brien lifts it and shifts Ratoath past the neighbours
RATOATH…2-18 DUNSHAUGHLIN/ROYAL GAELS…2-16 Ratoath businessman Gabriel O’Brien has what is perhaps the leading crane hire business in the country, which operates under the advertising slogan “Don’t lift it, let O’Brien shift it”. Now read on… Whether Bobby of the same surname is one of Gabriel’s gang or not I am not sure, but the experienced…
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Selections for Listowel – Sept. 22nd 2026
1.47: LOUGHREA N ROLL (JOEY SHERIDAN/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 2.22: CISTERNA (SAM COEN (5)/ANDY SLATTERY) 2.57: ALISSAM – EW – (JACK KEARNEY (3)/STEPHEN THORNE) 3.32: JAGGED EDGE (JACK KEARNEY/STEPHEN THORNE) 4.07: MARGOT MAE – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/JESSIE HARRINGTON) 4.41: GALILEO NOIRE – EW – (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 5.16: BAY OF STARS (COLIN KEANE/DERMOT WELD)
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Cometh the hour, cometh the Moran
WOLFE TONES…1-12 RATHKENNY…0-13 If memory serves me correctly, Kyle Moran came on as a substitute in a Meath SFC knockout game a few years back and netted a crucial goal for Wolfe Tones as they progressed to a Meath SFC Final against Dunshaughlin/Royal Gaels. As it happened, before the corresponding phase of competition for the…
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Selections for Fairyhouse – Sept. 21st 2026
3.50: EIGHTEEN SMILES (JOEY SHERIDAN/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 4.25: RIVER TRIEUX (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 4.57: MOYASSR – EW – (SAM COEN (5)/ADO MCGUINNESS) 5.27: BELLA COLOMBIA – EW – (BILLY LEE/WILLIE MCCREERY) 5.57: MARCO POLO (WAYNE LORDAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 6.27: PINK VENOM (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 6.57: NOUVEL ESPOIR – EW – (COLIN KEANE/JIMMY BARCOE)
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Selections for Listowel – Sept. 21st 2026
1.23: DAWNMORE (SEAMIE HEFFERNAN/JIM BOLGER) 1 53: STELLAR VIEW – EW – (CONOR CUSACK (7)/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.23: KEOGIE (ADAM CAFFREY/NOEL MEADE) 2.55: AMPLITUDE – EW – (GARY CARROLL/JOE MURPHY) 3.30: CANON LAW – EW – (REESE HOLOHAN (7)/BRENDAN W. DUKE) 4.05: DAY TRADER – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/TONY MARTIN) 4.40: THE AUSTRIAN (SHANE FOLEY/JESSIE…
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Furze have the horsepower to dig out safety
(Last edited 12:50pm on 21/9/26 to correct several typos. Mea Culpa). Seneschalstown…1-26 Simonstown Gaels…2-19 (AET) It’s difficult if not impossible now to visualise a world without the ability to stream events online. Either in real time or to be able to go back and re-watch them after the fact. In a sporting sense, the advent…
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Selections for Listowel – Sept. 20th 2026
2.18: MINELLA BUOY (DAN KING/JOHN NALLEN) 2.48: TUMBLING IN (MARK WALSH/ERIC MCNAMARA) 3.18: FRAHER FIELD – EW – (ALAN O’SULLIVAN (5)/J.E. & T. KIELY) 3.48: RUN TED RUN (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.18: SKY LORD (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 4.48: COSTACOURTA – EW – (MIKE O’CONNOR/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 5.18: GREEN HINT (PADDY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS)
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Selections for Gowran – Sept. 19th 2026
2.06: MUMHAN – EW – (DECLAN MCDONOGH/JIM BOLGER) 2.41: CASTILIAN QUEEN (GARY CARROLL/GER LYONS) 3.15: ALBANY COUNTY (WAYNE LORDAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 3.50: CAUGHT YOU SLEEPING – EW – (BEN COEN/NOEL MEADE) 4.25: COLPE CROSS – EW – (SEAMIE HEFFERNAN/NATALIA LUPINI) 5.02: MOYASSR – EW – (SAM COEN/ADO MCGUINNESS) 5.37: RESPONSE FINALE (REESE HOLOHAN (7)/GAVIN CROMWELL)
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Selections for Navan – Sept. 19th 2026
1.07: IVATT – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.42: HOPEFUL HERO – EW – (ALAN O’SULLIVAN (5)/TOM HOGAN) 2.17: ANY CHANCE (CONOR STONE-WALSH/CIAN HUGHES) 2.52: PURE LOGIC – EW – (PADDY HANLON (5)/JOHN HANLON) 3.26: MOTHER SHIP – EW – (PADDY HANLON (5)/JOHN HANLON) 4.02: EMERALD ENIGMA (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.45: CAN HAPPEN – EW…
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A lot of ‘What ifs’ for one parish to ponder
KILBRIDE…0-21 NA FIANNA…1-15 (AET) VEGAS’S MEN WERE OUTSIDERS FOR SURVIVAL Sometimes, personally speaking, when confidence is a bit shot, it takes a bit of a boost from a perhaps unexpected source to keep the wheels turning. In this case, confirmation that reading and judgment of the local GAA scene is still fairly well on the…
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